GIVES BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON CHINESE MOSLEMS IN TAIWAN

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 317
• Publication Date: December 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1951
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GIVES BIOYGRkPBICAL DATA ON
CHINESE MMCSLEMSS IN TAIWAN
The following ln_formaticn on Ch-nese Moslem military and political figures
presently on Taiwan was extracted from the Istanbul newspaper Hurriyet from a
series of articles wrist^n by the paper's correspondent, Hikmet Feridun Es, dur-
ing a stopover in T'al -pel en his return to Turkey from Japan. Although Es in-
terviewed Chiang Kai-shek and 'cis wife, he was concerned particularly with Chinese
of Turkish descent; originating chiefly in Sinkiang Province. Es said that vhila
their speech differed from his own Istanbul. Turkish, only a short time sufficed
for him to understand heir particc1ar dialect.
Es mentioned two Islamic groups which function in T'ai-pei -- the Chinese --
Moslems' Society and the Young Moslem a Society, the latter being under the direct
protection of Madame Chiang Kai--shek. He also said that the colony is currently
translating the Koran into Chinese.
In commenting on the Chinese Turkish colony as a whole, Es said that its
members were formerly very affluent have now lost everything. These Chinese
Turks, according to Ee, are proud of their Turkish descent and well-read on Turkey,
but are inclined to feel that Turkey has failed to display the proper interest In
In the course of his articles, Es gave the following biographic information
about Chinese Turks.
Abdullah Emilcglu
By blood a pure Turk, Emiloglu is completely informed about Turkey and its
people and can read Tvrkieh in both the old Arabic and new Latin script, even
though he has never been out of China. He also, of course, knows Chinese. He is
married to a Chinese girl and has one daughter, Yildiz, and his wife is expecting
a second child. He is currently a member of the Legislative Yuan, having been
elected deputy fo; Sinkiang in 19i7.
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By profession, Emiloglu isa newspaperman and has published various newspapers,
including Gundeliix Erk (Laily Freedom) and Alga (Ration) in Nanking, and the
Tientsin Hua Pao Tientsin Illustrated Post) in Tientsin in both Chinese and
Turkish sic ; magazines published have included Turkish Literary Review World
Magazine, and Higher Learning original titles and place of publication not givei.
Ayshe Hanim
A teachar by profession, Ayshe Hanim, was the first woman to be elected to the
Legislative Yuan. Previously, when elected to the Shanghai Municipal Assembly,
she had been the first woman in all China to hold such a post. For a time she
served as deputy mayor of Shanghai.
Ayshe Hanim is a graduate of Hankow and Nanking Universities. Married, she
has four children; her oldest son, Shi Chung, has studied in the US, while her
daughter Shi Ming, is studying there now. Although she and her children are Mc3-
lems, unlike her, they prefer to use their Chinese names.
Col Ahmet Zeki Bey
This man studied at Galatasaray Lycee in Istanbul, and currently makes a
weekly radio broadcast in Turkish over Radio Free China.
Col Ethem Sabri and Lieutenant Colonel Sherif
These men are both Turks by descent and a-e currently serving as officers in
the Chinese Nationalist forces. The latter, 34, is a Moslem but has recently
married a Chinese girl, 16, who is a Buddhist. In such mixed marriages, Es com-
mented, an effort is always made to assure a wide difference in the ages of the
man and woman involved.
Other Chinese Turks
I31ak Ibri Sul.eymar, who has the Chinese name of Sang Yung-tai, is ,resident
of the Chinese Moslems; Society and imam of the Turkish colony in T'ai-pei.
Rashide Hanim, another Turkish woman member of the Legislative Yuan.
General Yusuf Rey, a famous Chinese Moslem general, has the Chinese name of
Na Pin-shad.
Ibrahim Bey, another important Chinese Turk, is also known as Tsin-Che-fung.
Colonel Davud Leu, although a Manchurian by birth, speaks excellent Turkish
in addition to Manchu and Chinese. Colonel Leu, 33, a graduate of the Chinese
Military Academy, studied at the Turkish Military Academy from 1945 to 1948. After
his return to China, he was assigned as aide-de-camp to General Omer (China's most
famous Moslem commander), a pest he still hold , A brother still lives in Man-
churia with whom Leu has lost all contact. The colonel, according to Es, is due to
receive his generalcy in the near future.
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